How exciting! My situation is much different because my FI/husband and I married early for legal/benefit reasons.

We told my parents and his sister and brother in law. My Mom was disappointed that she wasn’t there, but she undertsood. My Dad was actually really proud of us (“you’re working together to make things happen. I like that, you two are going to be just fine”). His sister and brother in law were happy for us and not too surprised. We hesitated to tell anyone else because of how they’d react, but nevertheless we told a few friends and they were totally cool with it.

Are you planning to go just the two of you? What kind of relationship do you have with your parents?

we should have got married last year but he called it off, we were arguing about family as they became to involved in our plans and trying to take over.

His aunty kept asking to be maid of honour and her son be page boy, so you can probably imagine how that went down lol.

We just want to cut out the crap and do it for us and then come home and have a “suprise birthday party for my fiance” thats what our guest will think to see that when we arrive we are wearing our wedding outfits etc and will play our wedding dvd to everyone, and it will also be his birthday party but our wedding reception.

That sounds like a good idea to me @waitingstill but depending on your parents relatiionship with you and their perssonality, not telling them may or may not be a good idea…how much time is in between when you plan to elope and the reception?